Some of my trash picking treasures
I want to be clear, I inspect everything carefully before I bring it home. Once at night time, I found two separate and spectacular artwork in elaborate photo frames, like one would see at an antique shop. I only had my flashlight on my phone and so I couldn't look for "critters" as it was too dark outside. I decided to come back in the morning and when I did the prints with the elaborate photo frames had already been picked. So someone else was able to save these prints and photo frames.
I once had a client that was unable to cook and cut her own food. She lived in an exorbitant neighborhood. A neighbor of my client threw away 4 of these dining room chairs from Raymour and Flanigan Furniture Store. I sat in each of them and there was absolutely nothing wrong with the legs or chairs themselves. I looked them over and they just needed cleaning.
Someone threw away this rattan/wicker accent table.
In the corner is a wrought iron folding corner shelf. It was waiting to be thrown in the landfill, absolutely nothing wrong with it. I almost got ran over by 2 separate vehicles and I smashed my pinky finger loading it. I didn't even swear when I smashed my pinky finger! lol
Someone threw away this feline and I gave him a home. He was the most affectionate and hungry fellow that I've ever known! Everyone misses you, Bermuda.
Someone threw away these plates. I ended up giving them away to someone who needed them.
Someone threw away this plastic bench. I came across it at night and I thought it was wrought iron at first. They don't make that kind of details in plastic outdoor furniture anymore. It cleaned up well!
Someone threw away this plastic exterior pillar. That's just freshly mowed grass and or whacked weeds that ended up on it.
Someone threw away a teapot, creamer and sugar set. I just recently donated these items since I really didn't have the room for them.
These Mid Century Modern hexagon tables (I got 2) I didn't exactly garbage pick but I did manage to rescue them and repurpose them in my home. On top from left to right is a horse book end, a drink of tea and in the wooden box is my deceased feline Bermuda.
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The dining chairs must have been stored in a basement or garage for awhile because they were quite dusty when I retrieved them from the curb.
The prints with the elaborate photo frames that were sitting by the curb from a house that was only a few doors down from me.
Thank you, Diamond_Dog.
Yes, unfortunately we only have so much space to put our treasures so I understand about getting rid of stuff.
Rest in Paradise, Stinker. 
We never forget them do we?
And nicely eclectic. I loved picking up curbside. My daughter went to OU and at the time mentioned that there was always a lot of stuff set out at the end of the quarters. I didn't time any visits to look for treasures, but we would get things other ways. And if we had extra, we'd give it to people who needed it 
You were lucky to find your treasure. Mark Twain said Bermuda was a piece of heaven.
I think that happens frequently at many colleges. An abundance of throw aways at the end of each year.
Bermuda was certainly a piece of heaven.
I have a lot of respect for people who rescue/repurpose items from the curb. You should be proud of yourself!
I'll tell you what, I wouldn't mind having those chairs!
Bermuda was a handsome boy.
Keep up the good work! 
I hate seeing perfectly usable items sitting at the curb.
They're really nice chairs too, I've never had a set like them before.
Thanks, Bermuda thought that he was handsome boy too!
I definitely will!
There was a pickup with a few odd chairs. I looked at them on the way in. When I came out, the driver was sitting on the tailgate eating his lunch. We said hi, and I said the chairs looked nice. He said he was taking them to the landfill. I said what a shame. He looked them over, decided to keep one and gave me the other. It is a heavy solid wood dining chair. I have it in my kitchen for now
Please don't go down that path, Niagara ! 
Our late neighbor used to be very into this. One day she let me know that a near neighbor of ours was throwing away a bunch of old computers -- turned out to be FOUR -- which I rescued. One was a dual-processor IBM server (from just before they became LeNovo) with two quad-core processors, which I upgraded to faster quad-cores for about $20, and later to hex-core processors after prices came down. It has 12 DRAM slots, supporting 16GB each (I only have 8 in each) and three FULL-LENGTH PCIe card slots, as well as a PCI slot, six SATA drive bays (plus CD/DVD), 1kW PSU (or is it 1.1?), fans for the drives and CPUs, even for the RAM banks (OK, I had to buy those). Quite a hulkster, even if the CPU technology is a bit behind the times. I have computationally-intense jobs that benefit more from 12 cores and 96GB of RAM than from superfast CPUs, so it's a good deal for a FREE computer !
I also picked up some jumbo flat-screen TVs that I think may have only PSU problems -- there was a plague of bad PSU capacitors a number of years ago -- and if I had a good workbench* I would have been working on them already.
We've only occasionally picked up furniture, though there are some examples in our house right now -- we don't get any more because there's no room, unless we throw other equally good furniture !
*good = at minimum, cat-free.
I can't eat certain ingredients (like flour) and I made that pizza without flour. So I would never take another persons food! 
Thankfully you sound like an great tech person that can salvage PC's and get things done. That's impressive!
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